The Best Day Ever!

Yesterday was quite possibly one of the best days of my life. First, I had the day off, always fun. Second, I was on my way to Drake's house (granted, that happens a lot, but that's always one of the best parts of my day). Third, as I am driving I was flipping radio stations, something I don't do often in my car because I have so many cds and guess what I hear the d.j. say!!!! Her exact words were, "Stay tuned for your chance to win Gavin DeGraw and Howie Day tickets." And she said it so calmly, I would have been freaking out if I were her because I love them! Actually, I did freak out, I started shrieking and almost crashed my car. But I safely made it to Drake's, and I was calling Teetz every five seconds but he wasn't answering because he was on the other line with Tobin. Finally he answers and I tell him and he freaks out (as much as Teetz can freak out about anything - he actually was a bit more calm than me). We had been randomly checking Ticketmaster to see if they would ever be anywhere near us and the only show ever listed was in Kettering, Ohio and at first Teetz was like, even if we win tickets, I am not going to Ohio. I had to explain a time or two that, no sweetheart, the concert is here. Well, technically it is in Iowa, fucking Council Bluffs at that, but TEETZ AND I ARE GOING TO SEE GAVIN DEGRAW AND HOWIE DAY!!!!!!!!!! I am so excited about this, it is going to be an awesome show and I know I am going to bawl my fucking eyes out when Howie sings "Collide". I know he has other great songs and I love them and this is one of the songs everyone knows because it was his first single, but I love it so much because it is so honest. This song pretty much sums up how relationships, how you are so in love with this person and you are scared out of your mind that you can love someone so much, but it doesn't matter because you are together. I love it I love it I love it. and GAVIN DEGRAW, wow, don't even get me started. Well, I am going to start anyway. I love him too, quite simply. And I get to hear "Follow Through" LIVE! LIVE! How amazing is that going to be. I know I am probably going to cry then too, but hey, what can I say, I am a crier. If there is a song that is so amazing and I get that emotional over it, so be it, leave me alone, I am allowed to cry. Plus, these are two of my favorite artists, and they are actually REAL ARTISTS and they write their own music and they play their own instruments. I can't help it if I cry, I cried at the Rascal Flatts concert back in November when they sang "I'm Movin' On" but how can you not cry at that one? It's also among my favorite songs. And at the same show when Julie Roberts sang "Break Down Here", whoa, amazing. I don't think it is just the lyrics that always brings me to tears, though that is a large part. I think it also has to do with the voices singing them and how some of them are so amazing that it just moves me. Like with Julie Roberts, man, she can sing, she is absolutely AMAZING, thus why she is one of my favorite singers. I am so excited, wow, I feel like shouting from my front porch, but I think my white trash neighbors might get mad and start leaving more garbage on the lawn then. Gross. So I will shout here instead: I GET TO SEE GAVIN DEGRAW AND HOWIE DAY WITH TEETZ ON JULY 16TH!!!!!!!!!!!!! Okay, it is out of my system for a while, but I am sure I will need to write about it again later.

I know I complain about the summers here in Lincoln quite a bit, but I really do love this time of year. The only part I hate is the humidity. People don't always realize that Minnesota gets really hot in the summer, we're not 30 below all year round. We just don't have the humidity quite like Nebraska does. But I love being outside and laying out and being in the sun. I was listening to the radio the other day and new research has found that too little sun can be as bad for you as over-exposure and it might actually be beneficial for people to spend 15 minutes or so two or three times a week out in the sun without sun screen because you need vitamin D which the sun helps your body create and sunscreen thus blocks out the sun and the ability to do so. Now, I think they're going overboard and being sensationalistic by saying "Sunscreen causes cancer!" but in truth it contributes to it if you do not get enough vitamin d - and most people do not get enough vitamin d to begin with. I am not sure why this post turned kind of serious, (considering not too long ago I was just shouting about GAVIN DEGRAW AND HOWIE DAY,) and I am not getting on a soap box or anything about it, nor do I think we should all run around all the time without being smart about time spent in the sun, I just think it is a good idea to pay attention to this research because a lot of people don't know. And in general, most people don't get the vitamins they need anyway, but now they are doing worse damage to themselves. I don't know, whatever.

And by the way, yes, we are going out to the bars again this weekend. Even though it is the 4th of July weekend, give the cell a call if you're in town, it'll be fun. Last weekend was a blast. Granted, I was in a fighting mood, thus why when Drake's ex girlfriend kept calling I got so annoyed that on the 5th call I finally told her I was going to punch her in the face if she didn't quit, but hey, don't fuck with me. I know I said in a previous post that we wouldn't go out every weekend because none of us had the money, yet somehow we always manage to come up with at least a couple bucks to be able to have some drinks. I think it is worth it, we are just helping Teetz get it out of his system. As long as I keep telling myself and my mother that, we are golden ;)

Days til Gavin and Howie: 17!